- [Instructor] When you work with a grid…inside the Visual Studio Editor,…you have two basic views of it.…You have the XAML view…and you have the Designer view.…This of course is the XAML view,…you can see it over here,…it's got the beginning grid tag and an ending grid tag,…and when I select one of the tags,…you see that there's a gray highlight that shows up.…And also if I select the grid here,…you'll notice that in the designer portion of the window…there's some indicators that I've selected.…There's a blue outline and there's some little squares…on the left, right, and top and bottom.…

Those are the sizing handles.…In my example, I've got two grids.…I've got an outer grid and an inner grid.…This inner grid is easier to see the outline selectors…because I've set the margin to 90 pixels.…That adds a 90 pixel buffer around the edges of the grid.…And so when I select it,…it's easier for us to see exactly what Visual Studio has…for this grid.…Now you'll notice that when I select it here,…it also selects it in the designer;…

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12/2/2016

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in Visual Studio 2015 provides developers with a unified programming model for building modern applications on Windows. In this course, expert developer Walt Ritscher steps you through the details of how to create rich Windows user experiences using WPF's layout panels: basic UI containers used to position and arrange elements in XAML and other code. Explore the six prebuilt layout panels available, including stack, dock, and grid panels, and learn how to add rows, columns, and child elements; size and position content; and create a custom layout panel of your own, for more precise control of your interface designs.